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So what's your culture's weird ass Christmas tradition? (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm the most Kkkrackkkers of Amerikkkans so my tradition is just getting drunk off mulled wine and re-watching bad holiday movies with relatives I only kinda like.

I'm sometimes a little jealous of people who have weirder shit going on, like gremlins who slam doors and steal sausages or shitting Christmas logs. We need to bring back weird ass half-pagan shit.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Having the main Christmas celebrations the night before Christmas and spending Christmas day relaxing while constipated and slightly hungover.

Making offerings of porridge with butter on top to minor pagan household spirits that lives in the attic. These pagan spirits are far more popular as Christmas ornaments than Christian symbols.

Dancing around the Christmas tree while singing a mixture of hymns and secular Christmas songs, then dancing through every room in the house while singing a nonsensical song about Christmas lasting until Easter.

Drinking mulled wine with raisins and chopped almonds. Often spherical pancakes are served with this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

say more about these spherical pancakes

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

They're called "æbleskiver", which means "appleslices" because we used to make them by battering slices of apple in a dough that would raise a lot. They're made in a specific pan, which you can get shipped to you from the town Elk Horn apparently, which was founded by Danish immigrants. They eat it as breakfast, which strikes me as odd, but Americans eat pancakes for breakfast so it makes some sense. They're traditionally served with jam and powdered sugar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Hey Christmas doesn't last until easter, there's a fast in between! The song even says so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Can confirm the first one is true for Brazil (At least northeastern Brazil) as well. We all celebrate on the 24th at night and the 25th is largely ignored.